What is Metàfora?

Metàfora is an ONG, which for ten years has been dedicated to Contemporary Art and to Art Therapy.
Metàfora offers fulltime workshops/classes in Studio Arts, as well as a range of cultural, eduactional and therapeutic activities. Metàfora works with collaboration agreements of public entities, like the University of Barcelona, the Catalan Education Ministry and the Health-sector of the Catalan government.

At Metáfora, the interaction between multiculturalism and artistic creation form the base of every day. In one same space one can meet students and professionals of multiple disciplines (students of different countries, artists, designers, architects, teachers, art therapists, psychologists, sociologists, social educators …) Our goal is to promote the debate and the collaboration between all of them.



Metāfora is at present carrying out five projects:

1. The International Workshop, contemporary art course (in English)
2. The Master's degree of Art Therapy, managed for the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
3. Courses and informative activities of Art Therapy.
4. Art Therapy clinic
5. The Summer school, a meeting point fo artists, art therapists etc.

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